Re: Upgrading php

Current release: 1.0.0 (stable) was released on 2005-03-15 That means it's not up to date enough to help with 5.0 -> 5.1 upgrades... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Coleman" <eric@aplosmedia.com> To: "Andi Gutmans" <andi@zend.com> Cc: "Jani Taskinen" <sniper@iki.fi>; <truth@proposaltech.com>; <internals@lists.php.net> Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 3:24 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Upgrading php > What about using http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_CompatInfo as > a > basis? It seemed to do a pretty good job last time I ran it... > > - Eric > -- > Eric Coleman > > http://aplosmedia.com > home: 412 399 1024 > cell: 412 779 5176 > > > On Nov 18, 2005, at 2:33 PM, Andi Gutmans wrote: > > > Yep that's definitely a good start. The two things we might want to > > improve on are: > > a) Not require PHP 5 in order to detect these issues when PHP 6 > > comes a long. > > b) Have a script that automatically makes the changes that can be > > done without human intervention. > > > > We had something similar to (a) and (b) when we moved people from > > PHP/FI 2 to PHP 3 as there were some significant differences. That > > said, it's not always simple because you might need to have to > > reuse the scanner/parser and a simple PHP script might not be enough. > > > > Hopefully, as we get closer to PHP 6 there will be people who have > > time to invest in this. > > Most important thing at this point, is to keep the upgrading docs > > (which will be first released with 5.1) in sync with the changes, > > so that when the time comes with PHP 6, it'll be easy to translate > > the docs to such a script, without forgetting half the stuff that > > was changed. > > > > Andi > > > > At 12:06 AM 11/18/2005, Jani Taskinen wrote: > >> On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Andi Gutmans wrote: > >> > >>> I'm hoping that in future we can provide better tools for > >>> upgrading in between versions. Both from an auto-conversion > >>> perspective and just scanning the code statically and printing > >>> out warnings on what code to check. Coupled with better upgrading > >>> docs I think we'd improve the current situation significantly. > >> > >> We already have the scanner: > >> > >> # php -derror_reporting=4095 -l script_to_check.php > >> > >> Strict Standards: Usage of {} to access string offsets is > >> deprecated and > >> will be removed in PHP 6 in t.php on line 6 > >> No syntax errors detected in t.php > >> > >> With a simple shell script you can create a list of files having > >> any errors/warnings/notices/strict.. :) > >> > >> At work we use a syntax checker script run whenever we commit > >> files > >> to our CVS repository to catch any errors early..this reminded > >> me to > >> fix that script to catch notices and such too. :) > >> > >> --Jani > > > > -- > > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >